Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20170816

Chapter 2. Preparing the Host System

2.7. Mounting the
New Partition

Now that a file system has been created, the partition needs to be
made accessible. In order to do this, the partition needs to be
mounted at a chosen mount point. For the purposes of this book, it is
assumed that the file system is mounted under the directory specified
by the LFS environment variable as
described in the previous section.

Create the mount point and mount the LFS file system by running:

mkdir -pv $LFS
mount -v -t ext4 /dev/<xxx> $LFS

Replace <xxx> with
the designation of the LFS partition.

If using multiple partitions for LFS (e.g., one for / and another for /usr), mount them using:

Ensure that this new partition is not mounted with permissions that
are too restrictive (such as the nosuid
or nodev options). Run the mount command without any
parameters to see what options are set for the mounted LFS partition.
If nosuid and/or nodev are set, the partition will need to be
remounted.

If you are using a swap partition,
ensure that it is enabled using the swapon command:

/sbin/swapon -v /dev/<zzz>

Replace <zzz> with
the name of the swap partition.

Now that there is an established place to work, it is time to
download the packages.